Lead generation, staff training, and exhibitor strategy from 20+ years on the trade show floor - plus tips for the talent who work it.
How Las Vegas grew from early tourism promotion and the first LVCC convention into a modern trade show capital.
A Las Vegas pricing guide covering local staff, hotel compression, travel risk, venue logistics, and role complexity.
A Las Vegas staffing decision guide covering local talent, fly-in costs, airport risk, venues, traffic, and weather.
SEMA staffing notes for LVCC halls, transportation hubs, automotive demos, Vegas weather, and lead roles.
CES staffing notes for LVCC, Venetian Expo, ARIA, shuttles, rideshare, weather, and lead-capture roles.
Center-Strip staffing notes for Caesars Forum, Koval Lane, FORUM Plaza, LINQ Promenade, traffic, and booth roles.
Center-Strip staffing notes for Venetian Expo halls, Sands Avenue, Grand Canal Shoppes, traffic, and booth roles.
South Strip staffing notes for Mandalay Bay exhibit halls, resort routes, traffic, weather, and booth roles.
Hall-by-hall staffing notes for LVCC access, transit, weather, traffic, and booth roles.
Venue-by-venue staffing notes for LVCC, Mandalay Bay, The Venetian Expo, Caesars Forum, and Wynn.
See how trained booth talent attracts, qualifies, demonstrates, captures, and hands off attendees.
Compare the two roles by setting, objectives, skills, wardrobe, training, and measurement.
Plan professional, brand-aligned booth attire around the venue, assignment, schedule, and comfort.
Give booth talent the messages, workflow, logistics, escalation rules, and measurement plan they need.
Connect staffing performance to qualified conversations, demos, leads, meetings, pipeline, and revenue.
Realistic planning ranges by role, the costs quotes include, and a sample event staffing budget.
Compare duties, training, selection, use cases, and cost factors before choosing your campaign team.
Calculate headcount from usable booth space, conversation capacity, demos, breaks, and lead goals.
Book, select, brief, schedule, manage, and measure your booth team from eight weeks out through follow-up.
A scorecard-driven process for sourcing, interviewing, training, managing, and measuring brand ambassadors.
Separate worker pay from client billing and budget training, management, travel, and specialist skills.
Choose the right mix of ambassadors, booth staff, demonstrators, registration teams, qualifiers, and leads.
How to verify language ability, role skill, terminology, capture workflow, and event readiness.
Audition, train, schedule, and measure demonstrators who present accurately and create the right next step.
Practical openers, discovery questions, handoffs, exit lines, lead scoring, and capture fields.
Compare total cost, speed, control, payroll, training, replacements, safety, and administration.
Current planning guidance for venues, timing, badges, transportation, and show-specific labor boundaries.
What trade show models really cost in 2026 - hourly and daily rates by role, what drives the price, and a sample booth budget.
Plan the role, compare staffing partners, brief the team and organize event-day responsibilities.
Review promotional staffing roles, cost factors, local availability and planning considerations for Las Vegas shows.
A guide to organizing brand ambassador recruiting, training, deployment and measurement.
Review booth qualification questions, lead-capture practices and the handoff from event staff to sales.
Use the pre-show checklist to plan product briefing, visitor conversations, lead capture and team responsibilities.
Review pre-show planning for booth staffing, preparation, logistics and follow-up.
Review the profile information bookers use when considering talent for event assignments.
Share your event, staffing needs and planning questions with our team.
A note from our owner Caryn Hanna
